Scheduling algorithms lie at the heart of manufacturing systems optimisation by determining the order and allocation of tasks to resources. Their development is crucial for minimising production times ...

From Computerworld Australia comes news that researchers at the University of Sydney have developed (and, sadly, patented) an algorithm that its inventors say will schedule jobs in a way that reduces ...

In this paper we introduce two general techniques for the design and analysis of approximation algorithms for NP-hard scheduling problems in which the objective is to minimize the weighted sum of the ...

The Tactical Fixed Interval Scheduling Problem (TFISP) is the problem of determining the minimum number of parallel nonidentical machines, such that a feasible schedule exists for a given set of jobs.

A method used to schedule jobs for execution. Priority, length of time in the job queue and available resources are examples of criteria used. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...